It’d be difficult for Gene Gregory’s defense of battery-cage egg production to be more misleading in Monday’s guest column “Battery cages are good for chickens.” Gregory’s assertions are false or ...

Robert Procaccianti is a Narragansett resident and vice chair of the board of directors of Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization. Lawmakers took a big step back this year ...

Egg production farming is a lucrative business in Kenya. The industry has a population of 5.58 million commercial laying flocks producing about 1.6 billion eggs annually, according to the 2019 census ...

There are more egg-laying chickens in the U.S. than there are people. Until recently, almost all of those hens have lived in so-called battery cages, which provide each chicken with a floor space ...

This column is in response to Karen Davis’ Dec. 8 letter to the editor and to Jason Ketola’s Dec. 6 column “See the horrors of battery cages.” United Egg Producers is concerned that the information ...

Clive Phillips consults to Voiceless as a member of their Scientific Committee and is on the Board of Minding Animals. He has received funding from ASEAN for the development of poultry standards for ...

Keeping backyard chickens can be a lot of fun, not to mention the added bonus of getting fresh eggs. But how s it for the chickens? In most cases, the chickens live a much better life than the ones ...

Following a Humane Society of the United States undercover investigation, Ryan Gosling has written to the chief executive officer of Costco Wholesale Corporation urging the supermarket leader to ...

The price of eggs is ever-present in the collective American mind and has been for quite some time. As H5N1 influenza (more commonly known as “bird flu”) rages across the country, already inflated egg ...

A hen infested with sticktight fleas. (Courtesy of Amy Murillo/UC Riverside) Keeping backyard chickens can be a lot of fun, not to mention the added bonus of getting fresh eggs. But how s it for the ...

While egg prices have been rising dramatically across the country due to an avian flu epidemic which has killed some 48 millions turkeys and chickens across the Midwest, California's increase can be ...